THE INDIAN TOWN SITE AT WASHINGTON BORO Many years ago an Indian Town was located on the fertile slope of the eastern shore of the Susquehanna river now occupied by Washington Boro, where they lived and cultivated their gardens in Indian manner. Their habi- tation extended approximately from

Lancaster Union, Tuesday, December 22nd, 1835. THE WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION OF LANCASTER By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER I N Vol. XXXIII, pp. 160-7, of the Proceedings of The Lancaster I County Historical Society, is an article on "The Washington Association of Lancaster." Since that paper was published, my

The Washington Association of Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER Among the treasures preserved in the collections of the Lan- caster Lounty Historical Society is a little pamphlet of 16 pages, nve incnes long by three wide, entitled : CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS OF THE WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION OF

above is a picture, consisting of two allegorical representations of Fame, holding a shield between them, over which rests an open book, with these words dis- played: Rights Of Man. Immediately below the picture is the following inscription: PLAN Of the CITY of Washington, In the Territory of Columbia

part is now presented for the first time and the whole of it put in form to be of interest, if not of value. The recent destruction of the Columbia bridge prompted my writing a sketch of it, so that there might be a record made of its continuous history, and I will open this paper with that sketch

struggles with Maryland cen- tered here. Two bandits, named Lowe, terrorized everybody a year or more, until a body of constables from Lancaster county shot and crippled them in their cabins Just opposite Co- lumbia. About 1732, nearly 200 Mary- landers appeared opposite the present Columbia and began to

the Columbia and Washington electric railways both planned to build to Washington Boro and Millersville but this too never got beyond the planning stage. An extension was also talked of from Marietta to Maytown, but work was never started. A dif- ference in track gauges was about the only thing that

The Columbia Race Riots By William Frederic Worner Homer, 3OOO years ago, said : " Most sons are inferior to their fathers, a few are equal, and fewer still are superior to them." The history of Columbia occupies a unique place in the annals of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. From an early period

The First Columbia &i4 By Robert H. GOODELL On March 28, 1809, an act of Assembly was approved, which authorized the Governor of Pennsylvania to incorporate a company for the purpose of making and erecting a bridge over the Susquehanna. River in Lancaster County, at or near the town of Columbia

mixing. In a series of urban riots that erupted in New York City, Philadelphia, Detroit, Washington, D.C., and Cincinnati, Blacks and their property were subjected to mob violence. Columbia was no exception. William F. Worner has provided a concise and insightful account of the Columbia Race Riots of